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Britain After Empire w/ Kojo Koram

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Powell's Paranoia of the Migrant

The way that neo liberalism drives people insane to day is so often expressed as zenophobia. In that framework, migrants emerge as the sort of uncanny ghost of empire who must be refigured as a colonizer. And i just think it's really notable that with the idea of the great replacement, or here in the us, the the riconquista, it's really remarkable how how pervasive colonialist metaphors are.

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